The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
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ways and be wise. winch HAVING no over3eer or
guide provideth her food in the summer and
gsthereth her meat in the harvest.
The devil does not 30 often attack the
man who is busy with the pen, and the
book, and the trowel. and the saw and the
hammer. He is afraid Of those weapons.
But woe to that man whom this roaring
lion meets with his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always be
elegant, and cleanly and refined. There
is q certain amount Of drudgery through
which we must pass, whatever be our &C.
cupation. You know how men are SEN
fenced, a certain number Of years to
prison. and after they have suffered and
worked out the time, then they are al
lowed to go free. And so il is with all OF
us! God passed on us the sentences:
By the sweat Of thy brow shalt thou eat bread
We must endure our time of druid gerry.
and then, after awhile, we will be allowed
to go into comparative liberty. We must
be willing to endure the sentence. We
all know what drudgery is connected
with the beginning Of any trade or pro-
fession. but this does not continue all our
lives, il it be the students, or the mer-
chants, or the mechanics life.
know you have at the beginning many
a hard time, but after awhile these things
will become easy. You will have your
own master. Gods sentence will be sat-
isfied. You will be discharged from
prison. Bless God that you have brain
to think and hands to work and feet to
walk with, for tin your constant activity,
o young man, is one of your strongest de-
lenses. Put your trust in God and do
your level best. That child hal it right
when the horse ran away with the 10 ad
of wood and he sat upon it. When
asked il he was frightened he said: 'No
1 PRAYED to God and hung on like q
beaver"
Again. profound respect for the Sab
hath will be to the Young man q power
full preventative against evil. God ha s
thrust into the toll and fatigue Of life q
recreative dav, when the soul is especially
to be fed. It is no new-fangled notion
of wild-brained reformer, but
an institution established ut the
beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the DO dy
as well as the soul demands this instit u.
tion. Our bodies are seven-day clocks,
that must be wound up as often as that,
or they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has called il the
Lords Day. and he who devotes it to the
world is guilty Of robbery. God will no,
let the sin go unpublished either in this
world or the world to come.
This is the statement of man who had
broken this divine enactment: 81 was en-
{p "a A.,r tho oh, rvf,
river. On the Sabbath I used to rest. but
never regarded God in it. One beautiful
Sabbath, when the noise was all hushed
and the day was all that loveli-
ness could make il. I sat down on my
piazza, and went to work inventing a
new shuttle. 1 neither stopped to eat
nor drink till the sun went down. BY thai
time had the invention completed. The
next morning I exhibited it, boasted OF
my days work. and was applaudsd. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but
that Sabbath days work cost me thirty
thousand dollars. We branched out an
enlarged, and the curse Of Heaven was
upon me from that day onward"
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statu te, Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes il. This day.
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song,
and sermon. and sanctuary will hold back
from presumptuous scenes. That young
man who begins the duties Of life
with either secret or open disrespect
OF the holy dnv, I venture to propbesy,
will meet with no prominent sue
cesses. Gods curse will fall upon his
ship, his store. his Office, his studio, his
body and his soul. The way Of the wicked
he turneth upside down. In one Of the
old fables il was said that wonderful
child was born in Baydad, and q magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand
miles away. But I can hear in the foot
step Of that young man on his way to the
house Of worship this morning, step moi
only Of a lifetime of usefulness, but the
coming step Of eternal joys Of heavens
yet millions Of miles away.
Again. a noble ideal, and confident ex
pectation Of approximating to il. will in
fallibly advance. The artist completes il
his mind the great thought that he wishes
to transfer to the canvas or the marble
before he takes up the crayon or thu
chisel. The architect plans out tn
entire structure before he or
ders the workmen to begin, and. though
there may for a long while seem to b
nothing but laundering and rndeness. b.
has in his mind every Corinthian wreatl
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital
The poet arranges the entire plot before h
begins to chime the first canto Of tinglini
rythms. And vet, stranger to rs, Their
are men who attempt to build their char
acter without knowing in the end whethe
it shalt be n rude traitors den or st
Marks Of Venice; men who begin t
write the intricate poem OF their live
without knowing whether it shall be
Homer's odyssey" or q rhymster's botch
Nine hundred and ninety.nine men on
Of a thousand are living without an.
great life-plot. Booted and spurred, an
plumed. and urging their swift courser il
the hottest haste. I come out and ask
''Halloo, man, whittier away" His re
Spouse is: "Now here"
Rush into the busy shop or store o
many q one, and taking the plane out o
the mans hand and laying down tn
yard-stick say: "What, man, Is all thi
about, so much stir and sweat" The re
ply will stumble and break down between
teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be tn
following up Of the main plan Of exist
ence. Let men be consistent. II they prefe
misdeeds to correct courses of action, the
let them draw out the design o; knavery
and cruelty, and plumber. Lst every day
fal sehood and wrong-doing be added a
coloring to the picture. Let bloody deed
red stripe the canvas, and the clouds Of
wruthful God hang down heavily over tn
canvas, ready to break out in clamorou
tempest. Let the waters be chafed,
froth-tangle, and green with immeasura
BILE depths. Then take torch OF burnin
pitch and scorch into the frame of tn
picture the right name for it; namely, tn
SOULS suicide.
II one entering upon sinful direction